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Date:      Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:45:57 +0200
From:      Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, hackers@freebsd.org, Charles Sprickman <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com>
Subject:   Re: Nagios and threads
Message-ID:  <1119455157.1401.9.camel@genius1.i.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0506211042140.17105-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.43.0506211042140.17105-100000@sea.ntplx.net>

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Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Michal Mertl wrote:
> 
> > Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> > > Charles Sprickman <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com> writes:
> > > > 1. FreeBSD and threads. On FreeBSD there's a native user-level
> > > > implementation of threads called 'pthread' and there's also an
> > > > optional ports collection 'linuxthreads' that uses kernel hooks.
> > >
> > > This is only the case for FreeBSD 4.  FreeBSD 5 has native threads.
> >
> > Yes, the description on Nagios page is not precise but unfortunately
> > Nagios still has some problems even on 5.4. I wasn't able to find out
> > what was wrong and the problem dissappeared when I had to replace the
> > computer with single-processor one. The symptoms I observed were that
> > every several days one Nagios process was consuming all the CPU doing
> > hundreds of thousands of syscalls per second. It got always stuck around
> > the time when the the daily cron job run.
> >
> > I did a ktrace on the stuck process and tried to abort it to have the
> > core but I've lost the ktrace output and it never saved the core :-(.
> >
> > I'll install it on another machine and try to diagnose the problem some
> > more.
> 
> You gotta try it on -stable.

OK. I installed Nagios on a SMP computer with fresh -stable. I tried to
stress the disk but until now Nagios hasn't hung.

Michal




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